self-conscious - Story 126834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to highlight every imperfection in the wallpaper. John wiped his sweaty palms on his jeans. He’d discovered the account while “helping” his wife, Sarah, organize the bills. He’d been trying to look helpful, not suspicious.

The savings account was a shock. He thought they were a team. He thought they shared everything. He felt a sting behind his eyes and the need to defend himself.

He went to find her in the garden. She was happily pruning roses, her face serene, a stark contrast to his inner turmoil. "Beautiful roses," he said, his voice sounding hollow to his own ears. She smiled at him. He couldn't meet her gaze.

Emotion: self-conscious

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-conscious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-conscious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-conscious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-conscious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.307
`C`	0.298
`ness`	0.273
`尴尬`	0.263
`😶`	0.242

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.399
`de`	-0.266
`triumphant`	-0.266
`আনন্দের`	-0.247
`ايا`	-0.238